Greatest Hits (The Offspring album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
ReleasedJune 20, 2005 (Europe, United Kingdom)
June 21, 2005 (North America)
Recorded1994–2005
GenrePunk rock, pop punk
Length49:42
LabelColumbia
ProducerJerry Finn, Thom Wilson, Dave Jerden, Brendan O'Brien
The Offspring chronology
Splinter
(2003)
Greatest Hits
(2005)
Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
(2008)
Singles from Greatest Hits
  1. "Can't Repeat"
    Released: June 20, 2005
  2. "Next to You"
    Released: June 21, 2005
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Blender[2]
PopMatters[3]
Sputnikmusic[4]

Greatest Hits is a 2005 compilation album by the American punk rock band The Offspring, compiling hit singles from five of their first seven studio albums along with the previously unreleased songs "Can't Repeat" and "Next to You", the latter a cover version of The Police song included as a hidden track at the end of the album. Greatest Hits peaked at no. 8 on the Billboard 200, with 70,000 copies sold in its first week of release, and has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[5][6]

"Can't Repeat" was released as a single to promote the album, and peaked at no. 9 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and no. 10 on its Mainstream Rock Tracks.[7] "Next to You" was also released as a single to radio stations, peaking at no. 29 on Mainstream Rock Tracks.[7] A DVD/UMD video entitled Complete Music Video Collection was released a month later to complement Greatest Hits. It included the music videos for all fourteen songs on Greatest Hits (excluding "Next to You", for which no video was filmed), as well as three additional songs which had been released as singles but were not included on Greatest Hits: "The Meaning of Life" and "I Choose" from Ixnay on the Hombre, and "She's Got Issues" from Americana. These songs, along with several others the band had released as singles during the course of their career, had not charted as highly as those selected for Greatest Hits.[7]

  1. ^ Greatest Hits at AllMusic
  2. ^ [1] Archived January 4, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Begrand, Adrien (July 27, 2005). "The Offspring: Greatest Hits". PopMatters. Retrieved February 19, 2012.
  4. ^ "The Offspring - Greatest Hits (staff review)". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 2012-02-19.
  5. ^ "The Offspring: Artist Chart History - Albums". Billboard.com. Archived from the original on June 22, 2014. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
  6. ^ "RIAA Gold and Platinum awards searchable database". RIAA.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
  7. ^ a b c "The Offspring: Artist Chart History - Singles". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2008-05-15.

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